shadow on al-jazeera. the. riot police dispersed thousands of angry protesters in sudan as president omar al bashir this misses them as traitors. hello i'm barbara sara this is al jazeera live from london also coming up turkey says the united states has agreed to disarm kurdish fighters in northern syria u.s. president donald trump warns the government shutdown will last until he gets funding for his controversial border war with mexico and the search goes on

rescuers think for survivors in indonesia following saturday's deadly sin of. sudan's president omar al bashir has this missed protesters rallying against him in the capital khartoum as traitors and foreign agents up. earlier riot police fired tear gas to disperse the crowds of thousands who were marching towards the presidential palace the demonstrators want to al bashir to step down and blame his government for economic mismanagement and rising food prices official government figures say that at least twelve people have died since the unrest began a week ago while international groups say the real figure could be as high as thirty al-jazeera is heba morgan ventured into the thick of the protests and here is what she saw. people in sudan have been protesting for few days now and behind

me you can the amount of huge number of people protesting this saying that it's a peaceful protest they want the government to go they've been chanting things like down with the government this is the seventh day of protest against the government people are not clear concretely if it is going to end obviously there's a lot of confusion there's a lot of security concerns who have been firing tear gas while watching very threatening protests of everything going to leave but they are still there before protesting and it's turning out to be a huge crowd maybe probably much larger than the crowd was expecting it's not clear if this government is actually going to bow down to their demands and go away and five step like they want to it's it's been a very very shaky i think people have been protesting nobody knows where it's going to end. well he was in the studio now after that process and joins us live from khartoum so he by there we have omar al bashir dismissing the protesters that you spoke about a little bit earlier as traitors and foreign agents what kind of evidence of any is

using to back up these statements well barbara he doesn't have evidence not really what he is trying to do is he apparently he's trying to get the people to understand that there are other factors so that they know that it's not only the economy or it's not his fault that the economy is going down it's not his fault that there is inflation in the country people obviously don't want to listen to him before speaking to prove crowd to the crowd today in his ear a state he spoke yesterday as well and he said that he would he's going to try to introduce new reforms but people did not listen to him which is why today's protest happened people think that they've been here done that and they don't think that what he will do will provide them a change so what they're saying right now is that they want to see a new government they want bashir to go they feel like this regime has been around for too long without providing any real improvement to their lives so at this point what steps do you think omar bashir will take that people are asking for change as he said whether he may make further concessions.

well he has promise for the confession but what also the government is doing at the moment is that they're responding with tear gas and live ammunition people have been injured in today's protest while we were there we've heard sounds of live ammunition being fired was seen tear gas being fired at the protesters so he's got two ways to go with this he could continue responding wesen brutal force to get the protesters to back off and that has not worked today from what we have seen the more the pro the police the police use tear gas and live on missions the more the protesters seem keen to go on with their protests and then deliver the message that they want the government gone the other thing he could do is bowing to their demands and saying yes i am going to step down and you can try to elect a new government that is something he said he's not willing to do so at this point stance seems to be at a crossroads whether so that she would continue and try to provide reforms that the people at some point have to agree to or whether he would eventually step down but it's not clear which way this process will go and how it will end for the people of sudan in the government here morgan following all developments for us from khartoum

him as always thank you. well has sun hides the is a professor of political science at the university of khartoum he says the government has shown signs it will compromise and work to deliver on promises now would be mounted on the government. so the government could also to mobilize. mobilize certain colors that are mobilized from from both sides. so that is the only way we. have a compromise a political compromise to the country. i don't expect the government to bog down from this process but my expenses and. my continue can come through. because in other cities now.

that they're being done as we said in our but. it is a booklet to do google know what i. mean we would be a good. maybe two more to. go to becoming b. i think. turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. is going to take back military equipment supplied to kerk kurdish led forces in northern syria for weeks turkey has been threatening to launch a new offensive against the kurdish fighters who partnered with the u.s. in the battle against eisel but that operation was the late at the president trump announced he was pulling u.s. troops from syria turkey and the u.s. have now agreed to cooperate to ensure there isn't a power vacuum following the u.s.

withdrawal and began joint withdrawals around the city of monday's last month's well this is all part of the man b.j. agreement reached between the u.s. and turkey in june as part of that deal the u.s. guaranteed that kurdish fighters would withdraw from one to two east of the euphrates by the end of two thousand and eighteen a new city council would also be established by local arabs from the region who have been displaced due to the nearly four year civil war the roadmap was put in place in order to avoid a confrontation between the u.s. and turkey washington has been training and arming kurdish y p g fighters since two thousand and fourteen but turkey considers the group a terrorist organization cynicus a clue has more now from istanbul. turkish officials how welcomed the u.s. decision to withdraw from syria they also welcomed a commitment to with take weapons provided to y.p. to fighters in order to fight against myself in syria and when you speak to the military experts and security experts they have doubts about the way how these

weapons are going to be collected because they say there is a huge amount of weapons provided to the white p.g. and no one can assure that these weapons have been haven't been taken out of syria to iraq or other places or no one can guarantee that these weapons can be delivered by the white p.g. to russian military forces over there or the syrian regime army forces inside syria of course it is a question mark also for turkey whether united states is totally going to isolate the why ph in syria in that case a scenario comes up for the turkish officials still consider whether the white preacher is going to align with the syrian regime or a rush hour we know that two kurdish delegations from the syrian democracy a council which is the political wing of the s.d.f. have been to moscow and they have been discussed they discussed about the future of that is the euphrates where turkey and threatens to hold the military operation in order to clean the region from the y. p.g.

and to moscow has been the second capital after paris which hosts. meetings for the s.d.f. main the a y p g and turkey says that this is the says hosting of p.k. k. in their own capitals now talking to the source as an anchor they are very uncomfortable about these latest dialogue between moscow and the s.d.f. u.s. president donald trump says the partial government shutdown will continue until his the man for funds to build the wall along the southern border with mexico is mitt trump also repeated his criticism of the federal reserve. they raising interest rates too fast because they think economy is so that. i think that. they will get it. i can't tell you where the government's got to be open i can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall fence whatever they like to call it i'll call it whatever they want. but it's all the same thing it's

a barrier from people pouring into our company into our country she pretends she has more on that from washington. i think at the outset we have to make clear that as is often the case with these off the cuff remarks there are lots of ways to interpret what the president's saying and in fact in the end none of them have any bearing whatsoever on any future policy decisions but yes at the outset there is that very statement that i'm not going to normal going to sign any federal funding for the for the twenty five percent of the government that isn't being funded right now until i get until i get the wall but then he adds but he adds well the wall or the fence or whatever they like to call it so that suggests well wait a second if it's just about a fence or whatever they'd like to call it then is there a sense along from feels that if he if he if he if he relents on the terminology that maybe there's a way to a deal some democrats say there is no chance of ever getting any of these this kind of barrier but actually historically the democrats have appropriated billions of dollars for fencing along along the border he was also interesting because he said

that he his vision is of a five hundred to five hundred fifty mile barrier to be built by the by the by the next elections which is quite interesting that's actually considerably less than we've had in the past. indonesian rescuers are searching for hundreds of missing people following saturday's deadly tsunami but torrential rains are hampering their efforts that this hole in western java has now risen to four hundred twenty nine people with a further one thousand four hundred people injured and experts meanwhile a warning that residents should move to higher ground amid fears over more high tides and possible tsunamis and thomas reports now from the golan. the scenes in product line than india indonesians have seen lots of face this year the drudgery of a cleanup following a disaster this is what remains of the hotel look and all day in greeting guests when the tsunami hits on saturday both were swept inland by the water and were

injured as they were tumbled it was terrifying but not completely unexpected. i saw what happened and i knew i just knew it would happen here i just didn't know when. palu is the city on indonesia's fourth largest audience struck by another tsunami and earthquake in september more than two thousand people die like that and two major earthquakes killed more than five hundred people in the eastern island of lombok a few months ago so it's just an vulcanologists say the amounts of tectonic activity in indonesia in twenty eighteen hasn't been particularly unusual what is unusual is that the areas destroyed were heavily populated increasing the number of victims that's meant a very busy year for emergency services and aid organizations that help survivors but he decides that it's beyond our planning yet so that's

a we have read. about some of it is in to assist us and they also collect money. under national to fight this and i thought they're nice in the north hundred line is now in the first stage of a disaster recovery process that is more advanced in other parts of indonesia it's almost as if this rain which is a constant think the tsunami hit even mocking the people up on the ground i think try to clear up and dry out their lives but it will clear and like a it will improve that little comfort right now but the narrative in indonesia is the from india one hundred thomas al-jazeera. and two more still ahead on al-jazeera including another winter of discontent in greece as refugees and migrants are forced to endure the rain conditions calls for the return of african artifacts to the continent from around the globe as a new museum sheds new light on black civilization.

hello again welcome back to international weather forecast for here across southeastern europe watching a big storm system that's been moving through parts of turkey now up through the black sea and into the ukraine and with that storm we do expect to see quite a lot of rain as well as winds even still in the higher elevations and for the storm is going to really stay out here in the same location for the next several days so we're going to see quite a bit of accumulation fish in those higher elevations from korea temperatures going down high temperature here on wednesday only reaching to about zero and athens is going to be a cold day for you a little bit more sun in your forecast at about six but as we go towards thursday notice it gets even colder in our career as that air filters in from the north minus one is going to be your high out here towards the west what we're looking at

single digits for most locations london at nine degrees we're going to be seeing mostly cloudy conditions there down towards zurich it is going to be a better day with a temperature of five degrees for you well that same storm system i was talking about in turkey is going to cause a lot of problems here across the eastern med and down here towards egypt as we go towards wednesday the cold front is going to extend down here towards the coast that means rain anywhere from the gods over here towards alexandria we are going to be scenes of winds in the forecast as well but for tunis it is going to be a nice day with a temperature few fifteen. it was to mourn a must and the initial response had been inadequate but now it was time for a viable talk a little swarm of muslims no move from merely reacting to taking action putting the western crusaders on the defensive with hindsight this is seen as a breakthrough as a revival of the jihad in the muslim near east the crusades an arab perspective of

her so to revive at this time on a. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al bashir has the smith protesters rallying against him in the capital as traitors and foreign agents earlier police fired tear gas and live ammunition on the anti-government demonstrators were angry over the rising cost of turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. is going to take back military equipment supplied to kurdish led forces in northern

syria as part of a plan for the city of the beach agreed between and cried washington which will eventually see the complete withdrawal of kurdish fighters from the area. and tarantula rain is hampering search and rescue efforts in indonesia four hundred twenty nine people have now been confirmed dead after a tsunami struck the islands of java and sumatra on saturday more than one hundred fifty people are still missing. at least five people including three suicide bombers have been killed in an attack on the foreign ministry in the libyan capital tripoli they detonated a car bomb before opening fire on the ministry two of the attackers managed to get into the building would have been why he has more now from tripoli. the interior minister calls it a terrorist attack he also stated that the criminal investigation department is currently conducting forensic and d.n.a. analysis to recognize the identity of the attackers and the motives behind the attack this is the third time state institutions get under attack in

this year but yet interior minister admits that there is chaos in the security system look at libya we have been consumed by our own internal fighting and rivalries that's why we couldn't have official security forces that are well equipped and trained to prevent such attacks we have many challenges but we will never give up in the same context the foreign minister says that the ministers his headquarter has been damaged by the attack and the employee is well starved over work in another facility he also appears for the international community for help and how they really certainly don't lee this is a message to the international community we have demanded that the arms embargo on libya be lifted security cannot be maintained in libya and last year security council gives an exception by party lifting the arms embargo on certain qualities

of weapons so we can combat terrorism to similar attacks targeted estate institutions in the capital tripoli this year the high national election commission's headquarters in may and the state oil firm national oil corporations headquarter in september but yet their security apparatus does not seem to have been improved to prevent such attacks. the best toll from a gun and suicide attack on a government compound in afghanistan's capital has climbed over fit forty people now armed group has claimed responsibility for the attack on monday which was one of the deadliest assaults in kabul this year hundreds of people were trapped in the building for hours as gunmen went from floor to floor shooting government employees . thousands of asylum seekers living in tents on one of greece's a.g.n. islands are enduring another winter without proper shelter heating or running water

there's no space at the official camp which is supposed to house them and there's john psaropoulos reports from somewhere else they'll continue waiting in the cold until the government builds somewhere for them to me. when abdullah part and his family from afghanistan arrived on some most a few weeks ago they were given blankets and sleeping bags but no where to live because there's no space in the government run camp together with a friend they made this tent for their wives and ten children but there isn't enough room for them all they can embed i sleep outside the tent and my children and my wife have the tent one night i sleep on the ground one night on a chair one night i asked my friends if i may sleep with them one night i sleep outside the camp a town on one night i sleep in a mosque the former interpreter for u.s. forces in afghanistan says all the children are sick this blue tarpaulin isn't waterproof so on days like this the rain drops through in a high wind many tents are pulled apart and heavy rains can cause them to slide off

their base of wooden pallets into the mud almost three thousand asylum seekers live in similar conditions in an olive grove beside the camp those who have the money by turns to put under the top all in the lucky ones have camping stove but an open flame is a fire hazard some light wood fires and burned plastic food containers and egyptian asylum seeker trying to stay warm died of carbon. last year on lesbos his family is suing the greek government for failing to provide housing government handouts can be difficult to get many spend hours queuing for food. or to go early in the morning to wait for breakfast food service begins at eight and i can get food at nine i give the food to my family and then rejoin the queue for lunch i wait there for three hours and then i wait another four or five hours for dinner starting at four o'clock i spend all my day in the queue for food for my wife and children this

camp was built for six hundred fifty and already houses twice that many a few new arrivals still build their own accommodation on vacant spots inside the camp these men say they found the timber in town because. the truth is the situation is not the best given that asylum procedures take this long the good news is that the government is looking for a new space where we hope conditions will be better this camp used to be an artillery range it was hastily chosen and built in twenty sixteen to all of the e.u. turkey agreement the army was the only institution that could get the job done in short order until now has fiercely resisted the official camps expansion the government now seems to have overcome that obstacle and plans a new camp next year that will be twice as large as this these asylum seekers have a whole winter to survive first jumps out of. us a second the central american child asylum seeker has died while in u.s.

government custody u.s. immigration authorities say an eight year old boy from guatemala showed signs of potential illness on monday he died several hours after being diagnosed with a cold and fever earlier this month a seven year old girl also from died after being apprehended by border agents. voters in the democratic republic of congo will head to the polls this sunday but many remain concerned that the election will be compromised it's already being the first by a week because of technical and logistical problems now electoral commission workers are racing to finish preparations for the historic vote after a sort of reports from the capital kinshasa. electoral commission technicians in kinshasa a dealing with a crisis they have to make sure thousands of electronic voting machines you call from other regions and four million new ballot papers will walk on voting day and materials replace those that are seems to have been destroyed by fire in

a warehouse crippling dipali in the city and leading to a postponement of the election a lot. of you have four million voters here but we also needed some spares ballots so we ordered for five million people as we know organizing them disobey district and working hard to make sure they are ready for little of the. said new official say out of loyalty materials already in regional headquarters across the country this analyst believes getting them to polling stations during the rainy season in a country with bad infrastructure poor security in parts as well as an outbreak in the east will not be easy. in terms of just six nobody is able to give. on the. credibility of the process is very very low robot come back hella trains. that are to be deployed to the province's

he's already visited many parts of the country as it electoral process to this point has been a sham i don't. been unable to publish them up award the dishes. to detail so you might have stationed at least a machine meant for those used to manipulate the outcome these are difficult and uncertain times in. people here in the capital. they say they're afraid the election could be postponed again. on sunday they're not confident it will be credible we don't trust the process but we must go vote one week is nothing but on election day we will take responsibility we either have a good election they resign or we force them to leave. the only thing we expect. president kabila so we find another solution and i think the electoral commission

is just a puppet of the president and he is the real problem the commission is under pressure to deliver a reasonably credible election on sunday with just a few days to go many. a new museum in senegal is prompting calls for the return of african artifacts stolen by slave traders the exhibition showcases millions of years of african history. this report from. it is under this tree that the story begins three million years ago in africa with the beginning of the human species it's a tale of a journey from which most never returned part of the slave trade there were sorrow and destruction along the way but also color courage the spiritual and humor leaving those that want to learn more in our religion it's so overwhelming i don't

really understand it some of it's familiar some of it's not but it definitely grabs you by the guard. the museum of black civilization has been fifty two years in the making it's the brainchild of single or senegalese first president nicknamed the poet president because he spent a third of the national budget on arts and culture it's a legacy president is carrying on. keeping our culture is what saved african people from attempts made up making them soulless people without a history and if culture does link people together it also stimulates progress. work on the museum only began in two thousand and fifteen after a thirty four million dollars donation from china the exterior was inspired by the medieval city of great zimbabwe now a world heritage site while the inside is modeled on a senegalese hut fourteen thousand square meters in size. with this museum the call

from african countries to get their artifacts back to no longer be ignored because this face is a celebration of black artistic expression and so whether storyline or not much of it comes from outside the continent. the museum's director shows us the eighteenth century sward of. it was stolen from senegal and is in possession of the french who have now lent it to the museum of the company. but people when they stole our belongings they weren't art they were just objects of daily life but then colonizers to find these objects african art the aim of this museum is to show that african art is in fact much bigger than that our focus is not just on the past but also on the future and the voice of the diaspora. a large part of the museum is dedicated to contemporary art with many pieces from the caribbean the diversity of

the collection that's been assembled so far is unique for many africans who come to visit it is a much more than a museum it's a mirror to see themselves in a new light hawk al-jazeera the car. iraqi christians are celebrating christmas at the mar yousif church in baghdad the city is one of the old this christian communities in the world but their numbers have dropped significantly since the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion and the rise of eyesore but it's not all bad news for the community iraq's cabinet has just approved the law to mark christmas day as an official national holiday. the pope has used his annual christmas message to urge people to see their differences as a source of richness instead of danger speaking to thousands of people gathered in st peter's square the pope prayed that the spirit of the season might enable israelis and palestinians to find a way towards peace also prayed for political solutions to the conflicts in syria

and yet. made this christmas help us to rediscover the bonds of fraternity made it unable palestinians and israelis to resume dialogue and undertake a journey of peace that can put an end to conflict that has for over seventy years wrecked the land chosen by the lord to show his face of love for the child jesus allow the beloved and the beleaguered country of syria once again to find for eternity after these long years of war. now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al bashir has dismissed protesters rallying against him in the capital khartoum as traitors and foreign agents earlier riot police tried to disperse the crowds of thousands who were marching towards the presidential palace that want to al bashir to step down and blame his government for economic mismanagement and rising food prices keep it

morgan has more now from car too. people have been injured in today's protest while we were there we've heard sounds of live ammunition being fired we've seen tear gas being fired at the protesters so he's got two ways to go with this he could continue responding we using brutal force to get the protesters to back off but bet has not worked today from what we have seen the more the pro the put the police used tear gas and live a mission of the more the protesters seem to go on with their protests and of deliver the message that they want the government gone the other thing he could do is bowing to their demands and say yes i am going to step down and you can try to elect a new government that is something he said he's not willing to do so at this point samantha to be at a crossroads turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. is going to take back military equipment supplied to kurdish led forces in northern syria it's part of a road map for the city of mumbai agreed by ankara and washington which guarantees kurdish y p g fighters will eventually withdraw from the area turkey had been threatening a new offensive against the kurdish fighters which you considers a terrorist. president donald trump has warned the u.s.

government shutdown will last until he security funding for his border with mexico trump wants five point seven billion dollars added to the budget for the wall and says he will not sign off on any spending legislation without it search and rescue teams in indonesia are looking for hundreds of missing people following saturday's deadly tsunami but torrential rains are hampering the efforts that this toll has now risen to four hundred twenty nine people with a further one thousand four hundred injured. at least five people including three suicide bombers have been killed in an attack on the on the foreign ministry in the libyan capital tripoli they detonated a car bomb before opening fire on the ministry said more news in half an hour the stream is coming up next.

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